It is said that if you're bald in front, you're a thinker.
And if you're bald in back, you're a lover.
If you're bald in front and back, you just think you're a lover.

According to the Old Farmer's Almanac, today is the best day to:

Cut hair to encourage growth
  Make jams and jellies
  Plant aboveground crops

And, if you're keeping track, it is only forty-one days until winter begins in the northern hemisphere.

If you want a place in the sun, be prepared to put up with a few blisters.

---Anonymous

If you truly want something or anything done your way, then you'll have to do it yourself.
       ---Anonymous

According to the Almanac, today is the best day to:

Harvest below-ground crops.
Have dental care.
Pick fruit.
Plant below-ground crops.

According to this machine, the outdoor temperature is 31°F.  According to weather-dot-com, the outdoor temperature is 33°F.  Either way, it's colder than I'd expected.
This has increased my concern for the outdoor ( Read more... )

According to the Old Famer's Almanac, today is the best day to:

• bake
• can or pickle vegetables and fruits
• graft or pollinate
• make sauerkraut

But, I'm reckoning it ought to work for roses or other shrubs, probably scaling down the height.

https://www.bbg.org/article/how_to_wrap_a_fig_tree_to_protect_it_for_the_winter

Whether you think  you can or think you can't---you're right.

--- Henry Ford

If you expect the world to be fair with you because you are fair, you are fooling yourself. That's like expecting the lion not to eat you because you didn't eat him.
---John Spence (attributed)

According to the Old Famer's Almanac, today is the best day to:

Do nothing, rest up, take a nap, enjoy!